A Good Shot, Adirondacks

1892

Winslow Homer

Artist, American, 1836 - 1910

A buck jerks to the right as it leaps toward us, over a boulder and away from a rolling river in this horizontal watercolor painting. The buck is just right of center, and his body scissors, presumably as a gunshot lands. His curling horns nearly meet in an oval overhead, and one front leg is pulled up. The river is painted with tones of spruce green and sapphire, topaz, and celestial blue. The black silhouettes of two animals, either more deer or dogs, are in the distance to the right, and a white puff is along the far bank to the left. The forested background is painted broadly with tones of earthy green, tan, and smoky blue. The artist signed and dated the watercolor in the lower left corner, “Oct 12 1892 Homer.”

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1908); J. R. Andrews, New York, 1908; (American Art Association, 27-28 Jan. 1916, Andrews et. al. sale no. 39); (M. Knoedler & Co., 1916); Charles R. Henschel, New York, 1917; Ruth K. Henschel (Mrs. Charles R. Henschel), New York, 1956; gift to NGA, 1975

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1910

  • Eighth Annual Exhibition, Philadelphia Water Color Club, 1910, no. 161 (as Hudson River in the Adirondacks), no. 161

1930

  • Sixth Loan Exhibition: Winslow Homer, Albert P. Ryder, Thomas Eakins, Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1930, no. 29

1936

  • Winslow Homer 1836-1910, M. Knoedler & Co., NY, 1936, no. 20

1941

  • Watercolors and Drawings by Winslow Homer, Institute of Modern Art, Boston, 1941, no. wc-10

1944

  • Oils and Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, 1944

  • Winslow Homer, Worcester Art Museum, 1944, no. 47

1947

  • A Loan Exhibition of Winslow Homer for the Benefit of the New York Botanical Garden, Wildenstein & Co., NY, 1947, no. 70

1959

  • Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks, Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, 1959, no. 21

1962

  • Watercolors by Winslow Homer from the Collection of Mrs. Charles R. Henschel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 6 July-12 Sept. 1962, no. 9

1963

  • Winslow Homer in New York State, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, 1963, no. 54

1966

  • Watercolors by Winslow Homer, 1836-1910, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1966, no. 29

1973

  • Winslow Homer, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, 1973, no. 130

1975

  • Winslow Homer (1836-1910): Watercolors, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 1975, no cat.

1986

  • Winslow Homer Watercolors, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1986, no. 177, repro.

1995

  • Winslow Homer, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Boston and New York only), 1995-1996, 262-263, no. 161, repro.

2005

  • Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005-2006, unnumbered brochure.

Bibliography

1986

  • Cooper 1986, p.184, fig.177.

1995

  • Winslow Homer. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1995-1996: no. 161.

1996

  • Tatham, David. Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks. New York: 1996, 116-117, no. 43.

2008

  • Tedeschi, Martha with Kristi Dahm. Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light, Art Institute of Chicago, 2008: 203, fig. 14.

2014

  • Goodrich, Lloyd and Abigail Booth Gerdts. Record of Works by Winslow Homer. New York, 2014: V, no. 149, p. 122

Inscriptions

lower left in black: Oct 12 1892 Homer; upper left verso in graphite: J/ 42428/ Jan 28-16/ Hudson River/ 38327/ m / Adirondacks; upper center verso in blue crayon: N. 13; upper right verso in graphite: 39.1/ 42.1x / 46.8x (circled); center verso in black ink: a good shot; center right verso in red crayon: 124

Markings

center verso stamped in purple ink: M. K. & Co. / W C No...

Wikidata ID

Q64640027

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